Osho Quotes and Sayings

• The real becomes available only when you work for it with your totality.
   
• The very word "sin" in its origin means "forgetfulness," and that's very beautiful to remember. Consciousness means remembrance, awareness; and sin means unawareness, forgetfulness.
   
• Once you are fully alert, your whole life is a virtue, whatever you do has a flavor of purity, a fragrance of the divine.
   
• Try it the whole day. Whatsoever you are doing, remember that you are the watcher. Walking...remember that the body is walking, you are the watcher. Eating...remember that the body is eating, you are the witness. If it spreads all over your day, one day, suddenly, you will see that in the dream also the watcher has a little possibility. And when you can also remember that 'I am just the watcher' in the dream, then dreams disappear. Then, with the disappearance of the dreams, a new consciousness arises in you. That consciousness I call the super-consciousness. And that consciousness is the goal of the psychology of the Buddhas.
   
• Meditation has to be something like that, that it runs like an undercurrent in your all activities of the day.
   
• Knowing thyself is the only way to experience the meaning and significance of existence.
   
• The most important thing in life is to learn that you are not the body. That will give you such freedom from pain and from suffering. Not that suffering will disappear, not that there will not be any pain or cancer, they will be there but you will not be identified with them. You will be just a watcher. And if you can watch your own body as if it is somebody else's body, you have attained something of tremendous importance. Your life has not been in vain. You have learned the lesson, the greatest lesson that is possible for any human being.
   
• My own approach is that meditation should be a compulsory thing for every student, for every retired person. There should be universities and colleges available to teach meditation. Every hospital should have a section specially for those who are going to die. Before they die they must be able to learn meditation. Then millions of people can die with laughter on their faces, with joy. Then death is simply freedom, freedom from the cage you have been calling your body. You are not the body.
   
• All the arts have their origin in meditation, and all the arts have moved far away from meditation -- and this is a calamity. Otherwise every artist, whatever his special art, should find a way towards meditation.